The Attachment Connection sorts
out the facts from the fiction about parent-child attachment and
shows how paying attention to the emotional needs of your child,
particularly during the first five years of development, can help
him or her grow up happy, secure, and confident. You'll discover
how your child's brain is developing at each stage of growth and
learn to use reasonable, easy-to-implement guidelines based on sound
science to foster secure attachment, healthy social skills, and
emotional regulation in your child.

Beautiful Oops! Barney Saltzberg, $22.95

It’s OK to make a mistake! In fact, hooray for mistakes!
A mistake is an adventure in creativity, a portal of discovery. A spill doesn’t
ruin a drawing — not when it becomes the shape of a goofy animal. And an
accidental tear in your paper? Beautiful Oops! is filled with
pop-ups, lift-the-flaps, tears, holes, overlays, bends, smudges, and even an
accordion “telescope” — each demonstrating the magical transformation from
blunder to wonder, as the smudge becomes the face of a bunny, a crumpled ball
of paper turns into a lamb’s fleecy coat — celebrate the oops in
life.

The Blessing of
a B Minus: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers.
Wendy Mogel, $17.00

With her warmth, wit, and signature combination of Jewish teachings and psychological research, Wendy Mogel helps parents to ably navigate the often rough journey through the teenage years and guide children to becoming confident, resilient young adults. By viewing the frustrating and worrisome elements of adolescence as "blessings," Mogel reveals that they are in fact necessary steps in psychological growth and character development to be met with faith, detachment, and a sense of humor rather than over-involvement and anxiety. Mogel gives parents the tools to do so and offers reassuring spiritual and ethical advice.

The
Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant
Children. Wendy Mogel, $18.99

A practical and refreshing antidote to
anxious over-parenting, The Blessing of a Skinned Knee is itself
a blessing — pointing the way to raising self-reliant, compassionate
and ethical children.

Bounce Back! A Book about Resilience. Cheri
Meiners, illustrated by Elizabeth Allen, $17.99 each (ages 4-8)

Upbeat and true-to-life, this book inspires and guides
preschool and primary-age children to accept and believe in themselves, ask for
what they need, solve problems, show kindness to others, and make good
decisions. Each book includes an activity guide for parents and teachers to
use, with discussion questions, activities, games, and tips that reinforce the
lessons from the book.

Bounce Back: How to Be a Resilient Kid. Wendy Moss,
$13.95 (ages 8-12)

Think of a bouncing ball. When a bouncing ball hits the
ground, it bounces back. That's what resilience means — the ability to bounce
back from tough times. Some people seem to just automatically bounce back. But
the truth is that resilience is not something you are born with or not — it can
be learned.

Bounce Back will help you find your bounce
using cool quizzes, lots of advice, and practical strategies that build up
resiliency skills. You'll learn how to:

The successes of feminism have led to greater opportunities
for girls, by challenging stifling stereotypes about femininity and broadening
the understanding of what it means to be female. While boys have travelled
alongside this transformation, narrow definitions of masculinity and manliness
haven’t faced the same degree of scrutiny. Whether they’re being urged to “man
up” or warned that “boys don’t cry,” young men are subjected to damaging
messages about manliness: they must muzzle their emotions and never show
weakness, dominate girls and compete with one another.

Boys: What It Means to Become a Man examines how
these toxic rules can hinder boys’ emotional and social development. If girls
can expand the borders of femaleness, could boys also be set free of limiting,
damaging expectations about manhood and masculinity? Could what’s been labelled
“the boy crisis” be the beginning of a revolution in how we raise young men?

Drawing on extensive research and interviews with
educators, activists, parents, psychologists, sociologists, and young men,
Giese — mother to a son herself — examines the myths of masculinity and the
challenges facing boys today. She reports from boys-only sex education classes
and recreational sports leagues; talks to parents of transgender children and
plays video games with her son. She tells stories of boys navigating the
transition into manhood and how the upheaval in cultural norms about sex,
sexuality and the myths of masculinity have changed the coming of age process
for today’s boys. With lively reportage and clear-eyed analysis, Giese reveals
that the movement for gender equality has the potential to liberate us all.

As parents today, we often feel that our role is to
protect our children from the world: to cushion them when they fall, to lift
them over obstacles, and to remove sharp rocks from their path. But controlling
a child’s entire environment and keeping all pain at bay isn’t feasible — we
can’t prepare the world for our children, so instead we should focus on preparing
our children for the world. “The solution is not removing impediments from our
children’s lives,” writes Krissy Pozatek, “it is compassionately encouraging
them to be brave.” We need to show our kids how to navigate their own terrain.

If our kids face small hurdles, small pains, at a young
age and learn to overcome these obstacles, they will be much better equipped to
face larger trouble later in life. Early lessons in problem solving teach
self-confidence and self-reliance — and show us that our kids are tougher than we
think. Krissy draws her lessons from her experience guiding children in
wilderness therapy and from her Buddhist practice — showing us that all life is
as unpredictable as mountain weather, that impermanence is the only constant,
and that the most loving act a parent can do is fearlessly ready their child to
face the wilderness.

What's the most important piece
of your child's educational experience? If you think it's math,
science, or reading, you might be overlooking an element that
is fast becoming essential in today's stressful world: the capacity
known as "inner resilience." In Building
Emotional Intelligence, pioneering educator Linda Lantieri
joins forces with renowned psychologist Daniel Goleman to help
children respond to and rebound from the challenges unique to the
21st century by teaching children how to quiet their minds, calm
their bodies, and manage their emotions more skillfully.

Linda Lantieri's proven techniques for increasing self-esteem,
improving concentration and awareness, and enhancing empathy and
communication are complemented by a spoken-word CD with exercises
presented by Daniel Goleman.

Child's Mind: How Mindfulness Can
Help Our Children Be More Focused, Calm & Relaxed. Christopher Willard, $22.95

Psychotherapist Christopher Willard
provides an overview of mindfulness and meditation techniques, clear and
detailed exercises designed for individuals and groups, and personal stories
that demonstrate the ability of mindfulness to empower children and adolescents. CHILD'S
MIND is an invaluable resource for teaching our children that confidence
and power comes from the ability to be aware of and comfortable with ourselves
and our surroundings.

The Confident Child: Raising Children to
Believe in Themselves. Terri Apter, $20.00

Raising confident, motivated, and caring
children is a parent’s greatest challenge. Drawing on her
own extensive research on children and parents, Terri Apter has
created a guide based on “emotional coaching” — learning
to respond appropriately to a child’s feelings — that
helps parents raise children to solve problems, to be socially active
and understand others, and to manage emotions, all of which are
crucial to developing confidence and functioning successfully in
society. Hugely insightful, reassuring, and accessible, The
Confident Child is a truly necessary parenting guide.

With The Conscious Parent's Guide to Childhood Anxiety,
you will learn how to take a relationship-centered approach to parenting that
engages your child and ensures that they succeed behaviorally, socially, and
cognitively. Conscious parenting is about being present with your child and
taking the time to understand how to help them flourish. By practicing this
mindful method, you can support your child emotionally and help nurture his
development. This easy-to-use guide helps you to:

Communicate openly with your child about anxiety

Build a supportive home environment

Determine your child's anxiety triggers

Learn strategies that will help your child release anxiety and
feel calm

Teach your child long-term coping skills

Discipline your child without increasing his anxiety

Educate and work with teachers and school officials

With The Conscious Parent's Guide to Childhood Anxiety,
you will learn to create a calm and mindful atmosphere for the whole family,
while helping your child feel competent, successful, and healthy.

Self-assured, assertive kids
are not only less likely to be picked on by their peers,
they're also less likely to bully others. But it's not always
easy for children to find a healthy middle ground between
passivity and aggression. If your child is a frequent target
for bullies, or has begun to tease and take advantage of
other kids, the easy and effective activities in Cool,
Calm, and Confident can help. These simple exercises
help children stand up for themselves without coming across
as aggressive, learn to be both kind and assertive, and
develop self-confidence and a positive self-image. Using
this workbook is an easy and effective way to instill self-esteem
in both passive and aggressive children, a strength that
will prove invaluable in childhood, in their teenage years,
and throughout their lives.

Mood swings, impulsiveness, poor judgment, and other
problems peak in these years. Add stressors such as screen addiction,
cyberbullying, increasing academic demands, and time-consuming athletic
commitments... and it’s no surprise that today’s teenagers are anxious.
Parents long to help, but how?

Based on a career counseling kids and their parents,
psychologist Michael Bradley locates the most powerful protective trait:
resilience. Teens with this crucial quality know how to handle difficulty,
overcome obstacles, and bounce back from setbacks. Packed with insights from
neuroscience and psychology, real-life case studies, and a dose of humor, Crazy-Stressed sheds light on the teen brain and offers a wealth of resiliency-boosting
strategies. In it, Dr. Bradley reveals:

What kids these days are really going through • Ways to
strengthen the seven skills every teen needs to survive and thrive •
What-to-do-when suggestions for common behavior, school, and social issues •
Tactics for coping with conflict, teaching consequences, improving
communication, staying connected, and more

It’s not easy being a teen — and it’s certainly not easy
parenting one. Always frank and often funny, Crazy-Stressed will become
your go-to guide... and your kids may even thank you for it.

Creating Capable Kids: Twelve Skills that will Help
Kids Succeed in School and Life. Bruce Howlett & Caitlin Howlett,
$23.50

Here is a compelling, thought provoking and practical
guide to parenting and educating today's children. It is derived from Amartya
Sen's Nobel Prize-winning approach to human development which has proven highly
effective at freeing people from the chains of poverty. Educators Bruce and
Caitlin Howlett apply Sen's approach to child development at home and in school
and offering fresh, effective ways to rescue parenting and revive education,
while providing parents, teachers and caregivers with a proven foundation for
creating rewarding childhoods, academic success and fulfilling lives.

By incorporating the twelve key capabilities, such as sensory awareness,
creative imagination, emotional and self-awareness, parents and educators can
promote the three most critical tools for children's survival and success:
continuous learning, problem solving, and increased knowledge and meaning.
Using stories of three different types of children — Zoe, Mia and Daniel — the
authors demonstrate the value of life and of the Capabilities Approach theory
on how to cultivate inquisitive, actively engaged, motivated, perceptive and
resilient children.

This practical, easy-to-read guide walks
parents through the concept of emotional competency, which begins
by teaching children to identify and acknowledge their feelings.
It provides exercises and examples that demonstrate how children
— even toddlers — can cope with their emotions, using self-calming
techniques (exercise or a few minutes with a favorite book, for
example) and problem-solving tools. Parents who too often find themselves
overwhelmed by frustrated children will appreciate the step-by-step
recommendations.

This book will help develop coping
skills through arts and language-based activities. The strategies suggested
build on children's existing knowledge and skills to enhance their learning,
and contribute to improving children's emotional health and creativity;
developing resilience; and increasing children's capacity to cooperate, respect
and play with others.

The authors also explain how to identify
children at risk, particularly those experiencing anxiety or delay in social
and emotional development, so that parents and practitioners can intervene
early where difficulties exist. Practitioners and parents of children aged 3-8
will find a treasure trove of activities to build coping and self-esteem
through creative play and imagination.

The Feeling Child: Laying the Foundations of
Confidence and Resilience. Maria Robinson, $48.50

THE FEELING CHILD thoughtfully discusses the key
principles of children’s emotional and behavioural development alongside
descriptions of everyday practice. It clearly explains how a child’s early
experiences influence their particular behaviours towards different people and
different situations.

Throughout the book, Maria Robinson considers the key
characteristics of effective learning and shows how play is one of the key
mechanisms that children use in their discovery of themselves and the world
around them. Emphasising the importance of understanding the theory that
underpins children’s emotional development, this accessible text shows
practitioners how they can use this knowledge to provide learning opportunities
that nourish children’s thinking and creative skills.

The Feminist's Guide to Raising a Little Princess: How
to Raise a Girl Who's Authentic, Joyful, and Fearless — Even If She Refuses to
Wear Anything But a Pink Tutu. Devorah Blachor, $22.00

“May God grant me the serenity to accept the color
pink, the courage to not let my house become a shrine to pink and princesses,
and the wisdom to know that pink is just a color, not a decision to never
attend college in the hopes of marrying wealthy.” - from The Feminist’s
Guide to Raising a Little Princess

Devorah Blachor, an ardent feminist, never expected to be
the parent of a little girl who was totally obsessed with the color pink,
princesses, and all things girly. When her three-year-old daughter fell down
the Disney Princess rabbit hole, she wasn’t sure how to reconcile the difference
between her parental expectations and the reality of her daughter’s passion.

In this book inspired by her viral New York Times
Motherlode piece “Turn Your Princess-Obsessed Toddler Into a Feminist in Eight
Easy Steps,” Blachor offers insight, advice, and plenty of humor and personal
anecdotes for other mothers who cringe each morning when their daughter refuses
to wear anything that isn’t pink. Her story of how she surrendered control and
opened up — to her Princess Toddler, to pink, and to life — is a universal tale of
modern parenting. She addresses important issues such as how to raise a
daughter in a society that pressures girls and women to bury their own needs,
conform to a beauty standard and sacrifice their own passions. Smart, funny,
and thought-provoking, this book shows feminist parents how to navigate their
daughters’ princess-obsessed years by taking a non-judgmental and positive
approach.

Several years ago Dr. Tamar Chansky,
a leading clinical expert on children and anxiety disorders, realized
that roughly half of the children she sees in her clinical practice
exhibit negative thinking. This negativity creates emotional hurdles
that often hinder children from achieving success and happiness,
both now and in the years to come.

Now in this landmark book, Dr. Chansky
thoroughly analyzes the underlying causes of children’s negative
attitudes and provides numerous strategies to help parents and their
children manage negative thoughts, build optimism, and establish
emotional resilience. She shows how to buffer kids from disappointment,
failure, and frustration by helping them to think more accurately
about their problems — to right-size them. Freeing your Child
from Negative Thinking provides parents, caregivers, and clinicians
with the tools they need to relieve a child from the burden of these
emotional hurdles and to build the positive, confident mindset that
will set them on their way to a bright, happy future.

The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let
Go So Their Children Can Succeed. Jessica Lahey, $19.99

Modern parenting is defined by an unprecedented level of
overprotectiveness — parents now rush to school to deliver forgotten assignments,
challenge teachers on report card disappointments, mastermind children's
friendships, and interfere on the playing field. As teacher, journalist, and
parent Jessica Lahey explains, even though these parents see themselves as being
highly responsive to their children's well-being, they aren't giving them the
chance to experience failure — or the opportunity to learn to solve their own
problems.

Everywhere she turned, Lahey saw an obvious and startling
fear of failure, in both her students and in her own children. This fear has
the potential to undermine children's autonomy, competence, motivation, and
their relationships with the adults in their lives. Providing a clear path
toward solutions, Lahey lays out a blueprint with targeted advice for handling
homework, report cards, social dynamics, and sports. Most important, she sets
forth a plan to help parents learn to step back and embrace their children's
setbacks along with their successes.

Empathetic and wise, The Gift of Failure is
essential reading for parents, educators, and psychologists nationwide who want
to help children thrive — and grow into independent, confident adults.

Kiko grows happiness: by making good choices, taking care
of her body and mind, paying attention to her feelings, problem solving, and
spending time with family and friends. This story will help kids learn that
they can play a pivotal role in creating their own happiness, just like Kiko.

A Note to Parents and Other Caregivers provides more
strategies for helping children learn how to grow happiness.

Introducing mindfulness into the lives of our children
and teenagers is perhaps the greatest gift we can offer. Mindfulness builds
emotional intelligence, boosts happiness, increases curiosity and engagement,
reduces anxiety and depression, soothes the pain of trauma, and helps kids (and
adults) focus, learn, and make better choices. If that weren’t enough, research
now shows that mindfulness significantly enhances what psychologists call
“flourishing” — the opposite of depression and avoidance.

Growing Up Mindful helps parents, educators, and
counselors learn how to embody and share the skills of mindfulness that will
empower our children with resilience throughout their lives. With more than 75
accessible exercises and practices, along with adaptations for the individual
needs of a wide range of children and teens, this inspiring guidebook brings
you road-tested insights and tools for:

Tapping the power of the imagination, play, and creativity

Body-based mindfulness and movement practices

Creatively overcoming resistance and gaining kids’ buy-in

The mindful use of technology and social media

Building the foundation through your own personal practice

“Attending” and “Befriending” — two positive responses to stress

Setting intentions and managing expectations of new practitioners

Sharing mindfulness in a formal setting including schools and
workplaces

Resilience in child development is a
much-talked about topic these days. Many people want to better understand
what it is, how it is related to the healthy development of children
and youth and what they can do to strengthen resilience in young
people. This new booklet from the Centre for Addiction and Mental
Health (CAMH) guides parents, educators, child and youth workers
and other professionals in understanding and supporting the individual,
family and community roots of resilience.

Growing Up with a Bucket Full of
Happiness: Three Rules for a Happier Life. Carol
McCloud, illustrated by Penny Weber, $14.95 (ages 9++)

Do you know you have an invisible bucket
which is filled with all of your good thoughts and feelings? If you're new to
the concept of bucket filling and bucket dipping, then this book is for you.
With easy to read chapters, colorful illustrations, and daily questions to help
readers become better bucket fillers, GROWING UP WITH A BUCKET FULL OF
HAPPINESS gives readers the tools to live a life filled with happiness.

A HAPPY HAT is a sweet and upbeat tale
of resilience, optimism, and hope. The life story of a hat — a very happy hat —
and its various owners illustrates how dealing with disappointments and
stressful situations is crucial to one’s well-being.

The Happy Kid Handbook: How to Raise Joyful Children
in a Stressful World. Katie Hurley, $21.95

Parenting today has gotten far too complicated. The truth
is that whatever drumbeat you march to, all parents would agree that we just
want our kids to be happy.

In The Happy Kid Handbook, child and adolescent therapist
Katie Hurley reveals that cultivating happinessis about parenting the
individual, because not every child is the same, and not every child will
respond to parenting the same way. By exploring the differences among
introverts, extroverts, and everything in between, this definitive guide to
parenting offers specific strategies for:

Understanding children's personalities and temperaments

Teaching children how to regulate their emotions

Helping children discover the importance of empathy

Teaching assertiveness skills

Reducing childhood stress and anxiety

Helping children cope with frustration

A back-to-basics guide to parenting, The Happy
Kid Handbook is a must-have for any parent hoping to be the best
parent they can be.

Healing
Stories: Picture Books for the Big and Small Changes in a Child's
Life. Jacqueline Golding, $22.95

Healing Stories recommends over
500 carefully selected books that can be used to help children cope
with the everyday challenges of childhood and with life-changing
crises; while offering adults the information they need to make
the right choices for their kids.

In How Children Succeed, Paul Tugh introduced
readers to research showing that personal qualities like perseverance,
self-control, and conscientiousness play a critical role in children's success.

Now, in Helping Children Succeed, Paul Tough takes
on a new set of pressing questions: What does growing up in poverty do to
children’s mental and physical development? How does adversity at home affect
their success in the classroom, from preschool to high school? And what
practical steps can the adults who are responsible for them — from parents and
teachers to policy makers and philanthropists — take to improve their chances
for a positive future?

Tough encourages us to think in a brand-new way about the
challenges of childhood. Rather than trying to “teach” skills like grit and
self-control, he argues, we should focus instead on creating the kinds of
environments, both at home and at school, in which those qualities are most
likely to flourish. Mining the latest research in psychology and neuroscience,
Tough provides us with insights and strategies for a new approach to childhood
adversity, one designed to help many more children succeed.

The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our
Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them.
Elaine Aron, $18.99

Highly sensitive children are deeply
reflective, sensitive to the subtle, and easily overwhelmed. These qualities
can make for smart, conscientious, creative children, but they can also become
unusually shy or timid, or begin acting out. With chapters addressing the needs
of specific age groups, from newborns through teens, THE HIGHLY SENSITIVE CHILD
delivers warmhearted, timely information for parents, teachers, and the
sensitive children in their lives.

How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the
Hidden Power of Character. Paul Tough, $22.50

Why do some children succeed while
others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one
about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from
preschool admissions to SATs. But in HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED, Paul Tough
argues that the qualities that matter more have to do with character: skills
like perseverance, curiosity, optimism, and self-control.

HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED introduces us to a new generation of researchers and
educators, who, for the first time, are using the tools of science to peel back
the mysteries of character. Through their stories — and the stories of the
children they are trying to help — Tough reveals how this new knowledge can
transform young people’s lives. He uncovers the surprising ways in which
parents do — and do not — prepare their children for adulthood. And he provides us
with new insights into how to improve the lives of children growing up in
poverty. This provocative and profoundly hopeful book will not only inspire and
engage readers; it will also change our understanding of childhood itself.

How Monsters Wish to Feel is a therapeutic story
about a journey to develop emotional resilience. Through the analogy of monsters,
it depicts a tale of how a child’s needs can sometimes become distorted, so
that the needs we see expressed through outward behaviour (the monster) mask
the true, hidden emotional needs that go unmet. The story also alludes to the
importance of focusing on the strengths and protective factors in a child’s
life, rather than the problems and risks, in order to promote emotional
resilience.

This beautifully illustrated storybook will appeal to all
children, and can be used by practitioners, educators and parents as a tool to
discuss emotional resilience with children.

The Hugging Tree: a Story about
Resilience. Jill Neimark, $13.95 (ages 4-8)

The Hugging Tree tells the story of a little tree growing all alone on a cliff,
by a vast and mighty sea. Through thundering storms and the cold of winter, the
tree holds fast. Sustained by the natural world and the kindness and compassion
of one little boy, eventually the tree grows until it can hold and shelter
others.

The resilience of the Hugging Tree calls
to mind the potential in all of us: to thrive, despite times of struggle and
difficulty. To nurture the little spark of hope and resolve. To dream and to
grow, just where we are. A Note to Parents and Caregivers by Elizabeth
McCallum, PhD, provides more information about resilience, and guidelines for
building resilience in children.

As parents, it’s heartbreaking to hear children say
negative things about themselves. But as children grow older and begin thinking
about the world in more complex ways, they also become more self-critical.
Alarmingly, studies show that self-esteem, for many children, takes a sharp
drop starting around age eight, and this decline continues into the early teen
years. So, how can you turn the tide on this upsetting trend and help your
child build genuine self-esteem?

With this guide, you’ll learn that self-esteem isn’t
about telling kids they're “special.” It’s about helping them embrace the freedom
that comes with a quiet ego — a way of being in the world that isn't preoccupied
with self-judgment, and instead embraces a compassionate view of oneself and
others that allows for both present awareness and personal growth. When kids
are less focused on evaluating and comparing themselves with others, they are
freer to empathize with others, embrace learning, and connect with the values
that are bigger than themselves.

You’ll also discover how your child’s fundamental needs
for connection, competence, and choice are essential for real self-esteem.
Connection involves building meaningful and satisfying relationships that
create a sense of belonging. Competence means building tangible skills. And
choice is about being able to make decisions, figure out what matters, and
choose to act in ways that are consistent with personal values. When children
are able to fulfill these three basic needs, the question of “Am I good
enough?” is less likely to come up.

If your child is suffering from low self-esteem, you need
a nuanced parenting approach. Let this book guide you as you help your child
create unshakeable confidence and lasting well-being.

Barbara Coloroso delivers a powerful message that good parenting begins by treating kids with dignity and respect, giving them a sense of power in their own lives and offering them opportunities to make decisions, take responsibility for their actions and to learn from their mistakes. Rejecting the quick-fix solutions of punishment and rewards, Coloroso shows how to use the very stuff of family life to help you guide your children to become self-disciplined, responsible, resilient and compassionate human beings.

Initially developed as stretching breaks
between long periods of sitting meditation, the Ten Mindful Movements have become
a popular tool to reduce stress and tension. These simple and effective
movements, based in yoga and Tai Chi, can increase mental, emotional, and
physical well-being, and are suitable for people with a wide range of physical
abilities. Each exercise is fully illustrated by Wietske Vriezen, a Dutch
artist and movement teacher. The book includes a 35-minute DVD of Thich Nhat
Hanh and members of the Plum Village Sangha demonstrating the Mindful
Movements.

A young girl has a wonderful idea. She is going to make
the most MAGNIFICENT thing! She knows just how it will look. She knows just how
it will work. All she has to do is make it, and she makes things all the time.
Easy-peasy! But making her magnificent thing is anything but easy, and the girl
tries and fails, repeatedly. Eventually, the girl gets really, really mad. She
is so mad, in fact, that she quits. But after her dog convinces her to take a
walk, she comes back to her project with renewed enthusiasm and manages to get
it just right.

For the early grades' exploration of character education, this funny book
offers a perfect example of the rewards of perseverance and creativity. The
girl's frustration and anger are vividly depicted in the detailed art, and the
story offers good options for dealing honestly with these feelings, while at
the same time reassuring children that it's okay to make mistakes.

There are many ways to help children
who are sad and depressed, and you might not even realize how much
you can do to make your child feel better. By working through this
book, guiding your child through just one activity a day, you can
empower him or her with the skills necessary to overcome sadness
and low self-esteem and live an active, joyful life.

Feelings can be
complicated, and learning to express them is a skill that must be
developed. My Mixed Emotions is here to coach children through a
variety of emotions and situations including dealing with bullying,
understanding grief, and coping with large family changes, such as divorce.

Divided into happiness, fear, anger, and
sadness, My Mixed Emotions explores the four main emotions, the
reasons why we feel them, and the science behind each one. Children will
discover great things about themselves, such as what happens in their brain
when they are happy, why they cry when they are sad, and why they sometimes
feel nervous.

My Mixed Emotions will become a friend and
guide as children travel through the mixed-up world of emotions to discover the
wonderful, unique person that they are.

Have you ever thought about your dreams and if you could
achieve them? Guess what? You can! It just takes changing the way you think to
change your life. Unlock the secrets to success in school, sports, music,
art — just about anything in life — with the information in Nothing You Can’t
Do!: The Secret Power of Growth Mindsets. By discovering the secrets
included in this illustrated, funny, and interactive book, you’ll learn how to
develop a growth mindset, where you look at life through a more optimistic
lens, learn how to handle mistakes in a positive way, and find all of the
possibilities in yourself, even those you didn’t know were there! With the
power of a growth mindset, there’s nothing you can’t do!

Nurturing Resilience in Our Children:
Answers to the Most Important Parenting Questions.
Robert Brooks & Sam Goldstein, $23.95

In their critically acclaimed parenting
bestseller, Raising Resilient Children, Drs. Robert Brooks and Sam
Goldstein introduced readers to their breakthrough parenting model for raising
resilient, emotionally healthy children capable of confronting life's
challenges and bouncing back from setbacks. In this important Q&A follow-up
book, Brooks and Goldstein elaborate and expand upon their theory of resilience
by supplying reasonable, jargon-free answers to dozens of questions typically
asked by the thousands of parents they've encountered through their workshops,
seminars, and lectures. NURTURING RESILIENCE IN OUR CHILDREN shows parents how
to help their children develop key competencies and character traits.

The Optimistic Child:
a Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build
Lifelong Resilience. Martin Seligman, $21.50

Dr. Martin Seligman offers parents, teachers,
and coaches a well-validated program to prevent depression in children.
In a thirty-year study, Seligman and his colleagues discovered the
link between pessimism — dwelling on the most catastrophic cause
of any setback — and depression. Seligman shows adults how to teach
children the skills of optimism that can help them combat depression,
achieve more on the playing field and at school, and improve their
physical health.

Complementing his book for professionals, here Scott
Shannon equips parents and caregivers with a better way to understand the
mental health challenges their children face, including how cutting-edge
scientific concepts like epigenetics and neuroplasticity mean new hope for
overcoming them. Readers learn how the most common stressors in kids — inadequate
nutrition, unaddressed trauma, learning problems, family relationships, and
more — are often at the root of behavioral and emotional issues, and what steps
can be taken to restore health and wholeness, without immediately turning to
medication.

While most parenting programs are
designed to coerce kids to change, PARENTING WITHOUT POWER STRUGGLES does
something innovative, showing you how to come alongside your children to awaken
their natural instincts to cooperate, rather than at them with threats or
bribes, which inevitably fuels their resistance. By staying calm and being the
confident “Captain of the ship” your child needs, you will learn how to parent
from a place of strong, durable connection, and you’ll be better able to help
your kids navigate the challenging moments of growing up.

Drawing upon her successful practice and
packed with real-life stories, PARENTING WITHOUT POWER STRUGGLES is an
extraordinary guidebook for transforming the day-to-day lives of busy
parents—and the children they love.

Parents Do Make a Difference: How to
Raise Kids with Solid Character, Strong Minds, and Caring Hearts. Michele Borba, $23.99

Finally, a book that shows you how to
teach kids the eight indispensable skills-self-confidence, self-awareness,
communication, problem solving, getting along, goal setting, perseverance, and
empathy-they'll need for living confident, happy, and productive lives. Filled
with step-by-step advice, practical ideas, and real-life examples, PARENTS DO
MAKE A DIFFERENCE puts field-tested tools into the hands of every parent and
teacher who wants their children to succeed.

The Parents’ Guide to Psychological First Aid: Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Predictable Life Crises. Gerald Koocher & Annette La Greca, $36.95

Compiled by two seasoned clinical psychologists, The Parents' Guide to Psychological First Aid brings together articles by recognized experts who provide you with the information you need to help your child or teen navigate the many trying problems that typically afflict young people. An encyclopedic reference for parents concerned with maintaining the mental health of their children, this indispensable volume will help you help your child to deal effectively with stress and pressure, to cope with everyday challenges, and to rebound from disappointments, mistakes, trauma, and adversity.

The Parents' Practical Guide to Resilience for
Children Ages 2-10 on the Autism Spectrum. Jeanette Purkis & Emma
Goodall, $25.95

Children and young people with autism have the capacity
to be independent and resilient which can help them live independently or be
supported to live a fulfilling life and reach their full potential.

This book empowers parents of autistic children aged two
to ten to help them promote resilience in their child. Full of suggestions and
simple activities, this easy-to-use resource will help guide parents on how to
build the foundations of resilience and independence for situations such as
school, new environments and relationships with other children. It includes
information about the main developmental stages for children on the autism
spectrum, and will take parents through life events and milestones at different
ages and identify where difficulties and barriers to resilience may arise and
how to address them.

The Parents' Practical Guide to Resilience for
Preteens and Teenagers on the Autism Spectrum. Jeanette Purkis & Emma
Goodall, $25.95

This book empowers parents of autistic young people aged
11 to 20 to help them promote resilience in their child. Full of suggestions
and simple activities, this easy-to-use resource will help guide parents on how
to build the foundations of resilience and independence for situations such as
negotiating sexuality and relationships, entering employment or living away
from home.

It includes information about the main developmental
stages for preteens and teens on the autism spectrum, and will take parents through
life events and milestones at different ages and identify where difficulties
and barriers to resilience may arise and how to address them.

Validation is the recognition and
acceptance that a person's feelings and thoughts are true and real for him or
her, regardless of whether or not those feelings make logical sense. This
seemingly simple concept can determine whether a child has self-esteem or not,
whether a child will grow to become an independent adult or a dependent one,
and whether a child will be able to process feelings in a healthy way or
express his or her emotions by throwing tantrums and acting out.

THE POWER OF VALIDATION breaks
validation skills into practical steps parents can use to respond to their
child's internal experiences in healthy ways without necessarily condoning
their child's behaviors. Readers learn to pay attention to their child,
acknowledge the child's thoughts and feelings, and help their child through the
process of developing an identity of his or her own. By validating difficult
emotions, but disallowing negative actions children may take in response to
these emotions, parents can help their kids develop essential self-validating
skills for the future that will foster self-esteem and emotional intelligence
in adulthood.

Drawing from a diverse collection of interviews with
women and girl activists, Powered by Girl is both a journalistic
exploration of how girls have embraced activism and a guide for adults who want
to support their organizing. Here we learn about the intergenerational support
behind thirteen-year-old Julia Bluhm when she got Seventeen to go Photoshop
free; nineteen-year-old Celeste Montaño, who pressed Google to diversify their
Doodles; and sixteen-year-old Yas Necati, who campaigns for better sex education.
And we learn what experienced adult activists say about how to scaffold girls’
social-change work. Brown argues that adults shouldn’t encourage girls to “lean
in.” Rather, girls should be supported in creating their own
movements — disrupting the narrative, developing their own ideas — on their own
terms.

Grit, the combination of passion and perseverance, has
more of an influence on success than cognitive ability, and parents want
nothing more than to raise happy, successful children. Raising Children With
Grit: Parenting Passionate, Persistent, and Successful Kids provides the
strategies that parents need to teach, motivate, and inspire children to pursue
their passions with grit — and succeed. And by focusing on self-discipline,
parenting strategies, and personality traits, parents can cultivate
perseverance in their children. By coupling that with an emphasis on curiosity
and interest-building activities, parents can help their children define their
passions. Additionally, this book offers tips for parents about working with
school personnel, how to model grit in their own lives, and how social factors
can influence the development of grit.

Boys need to be noticed, admired,
understood, and accepted to feel good about themselves. Boys who lack
appropriate emotional support from the adults close to them are at risk of
believing they don't fit in and are likely to act accordingly, engaging in
risky behaviors-including at worst using drugs and acting out violently.
RAISING CONFIDENT BOYS teaches readers what makes boys prone to low self-esteem
and provides practical, effective tips for managing these situations as they
arise.

Girls need ample, loving demonstrations
from adults close to them that they are appreciated and can be trusted to know
what they need for themselves. They also need to be given plenty of opportunity
to develop their talents. Girls who lack sufficient emotional support may feel
neglected and unworthy of attention, and easily find themselves at greater risk
of exploitation and abuse, even as adults. RAISING CONFIDENT GIRLS provides
parents and teachers with the best hands-on, practical advice available for
nurturing girls in a changing and challenging social environment.

With great wit, wisdom, and compassion, Christine Carter covers the day-to-day pressure points of parenting — how best to discipline, get kids to school and activities on time, and get dinner on the table — as well as the more elusive issues of helping children build healthy friendships and develop emotional intelligence. In 10 key steps, she helps you interact confidently and consistently with your kids to foster the skills, habits, and mindsets that will set the stage for positive emotions now and into their adolescence and beyond. Complete with a series of “try this” tips, secrets, and strategies, Raising Happiness is a one-of-a-kind resource that will help you instill joy in your kids — and, in the process, become more joyful yourself.

From pediatrician and award-winning author Ken Ginsburg
comes this new work which explores an innovative idea in parenting: The
Lighthouse Parenting Strategy. Offering essential tips on fostering resilience,
this book helps parents understand how they can offer unconditional love, yet
still set high expectations for their children; how to set boundaries — and
when to get out the way so their teen can learn lessons firsthand.

Combining Dr. Ginsburg's experience as a doctor and
parent, with the perspective of his two daughters — and more than 500
adolescents who participated in the youth view chapters — Raising Kids to
Thrive offers a fresh take on how to successfully parent teens in today's
complicated world.

Raising Resilient Children with
Autism Spectrum Disorders: Strategies for Helping Them Maximize Their
Strengths, Cope with Adversity and Develop a Social Mindset. Robert Brooks & Sam Goldstein, $23.95

In RAISING RESILIENT CHILDREN WITH
AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS, Dr. Goldstein and Dr. Brooks teach you the
strategies and mindset necessary to help your child develop strength, hope, and
optimism. This is the first approach for autism spectrum disorders based in the
extremely popular field of positive psychology.

Featuring dozens of stories and an
easy-to-follow, prescriptive narrative, Drs. Brooks and Goldstein demonstrate
how to apply resilience to every parenting practice when raising a child with
autism, preparing him or her for the challenges of today's complicated,
ever-changing world and helping your child develop essential social skills. Learn
how to:

Empower your child to problem-solve on his or
her ow

Teach your child to learn from mistakes rather
than feel defeated by them

Today's parents are constantly pressured to be perfect.
But in striving to do everything right, we risk missing what children really
need for lifelong emotional security. Now the simple, powerful "Circle of
Security" parenting strategies that Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper, and Bert
Powell have taught thousands of families are available in self-help form for
the first time. You will learn:

How to balance nurturing and protectiveness with promoting your
child's independence

What emotional needs a toddler or older child may be expressing
through difficult behavior

How your own upbringing affects your parenting style — and what you
can do about it

Filled with vivid stories and unique practical tools,
this book puts the keys to healthy attachment within everyone's
reach — self-understanding, flexibility, and the willingness to make and learn
from mistakes.

Children pay close attention to their parents' moods. When parents feel upset, their kids may become anxious, and when parents wind down, children also get the chance to relax. When you feel overwhelmed and stressed, it can be hard to help your child feel balanced. The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids, written by two child therapists, offers more than fifty activities you can do together as a family to help you and your child replace stressful and anxious feelings with feelings of optimism, confidence, and joy.

You'll learn proven relaxation techniques, including deep breathing, guided imagery, mindfulness, and yoga, and then receive guidance for teaching them to your child. Your child will also discover how taking time to do art and creative projects can create a sense of fulfillment and calm. By completing just one ten-minute activity from this workbook each day, you'll make relaxation a family habit that will stay with both you and your child for a lifetime.

Resiliency is what allows us to manage
stress, to build stable relationships and to achieve success. The
Resilient Child gives parents the tools to help children deal
with life’s adversities, to develop strength of character, integrity,
to make decisions and to problem-solve.

Rosie may seem quiet during the day, but at night she’s a
brilliant inventor of gizmos and gadgets who dreams of becoming a great
engineer. When her great-great-aunt Rose (Rosie the Riveter) comes for a visit
and mentions her one unfinished goal — to fly — Rosie sets to work building a
contraption to make her aunt’s dream come true. But when her contraption
doesn’t fly but rather hovers for a moment and then crashes, Rosie deems the
invention a failure. On the contrary, Aunt Rose insists that Rosie’s
contraption was a raging success: you can only truly fail, she explains, if you
quit. Rosie Revere, Engineer is a charming, spirited picture book about
believing in yourself and pursuing your dreams

Colorism and color bias — the preference for or presumed
superiority of people based on the color of their skin — is a pervasive and
damaging but rarely openly discussed phenomenon. In this unprecedented book,
Lori Tharps explores the issue in African American, Latino, Asian American, and
mixed-race families and communities by weaving together personal stories,
history, and analysis.

Tharps, the mother of three mixed-race children with
three distinct skin colors, uses her own family as a starting point to investigate
how skin-color difference is dealt with. Her journey takes her across the
country and into the lives of dozens of diverse individuals, all of whom have
grappled with skin-color politics and speak candidly about experiences that
sometimes scarred them. From a Latina woman who was told she couldn’t be in her
best friend’s wedding photos because her dark skin would “spoil” the pictures,
to a light-skinned African American man who spent his entire childhood “trying
to be Black,” Tharps illuminates the complex and multifaceted ways that
colorism affects our self-esteem and shapes our lives and relationships. Along
with intimate and revealing stories, Tharps adds a historical overview and a
contemporary cultural critique to contextualize how various communities and
individuals navigate skin-color politics.

The Self-Driven Child: the Science and Sense of Giving
Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives. William Stixrud & Ned Johnson,
$37.00

A few years ago, Bill Stixrud and Ned Johnson started
noticing the same problem from different angles: Even high-performing kids were
coming to them acutely stressed and lacking motivation. Many complained they
had no control over their lives. Some stumbled in high school or hit college
and unraveled. Bill is a clinical neuropsychologist who helps kids gripped by
anxiety or struggling to learn. Ned is a motivational coach who runs an elite
tutoring service. Together they discovered that the best antidote to stress is
to give kids more of a sense of control over their lives. But this doesn’t mean
giving up your authority as a parent. In this groundbreaking book they reveal
how you can actively help your child to sculpt a brain that is resilient, and
ready to take on new challenges.

The Self-Driven Child offers a combination of
cutting-edge brain science, the latest discoveries in behavioral therapy, and
case studies drawn from the thousands of kids and teens Bill and Ned have
helped over the years to teach you how to set your child on the real road to
success. As parents, we can only drive our kids so far. At some point, they
will have to take the wheel and map out their own path. But there is a lot you
can do before then to help them tackle the road ahead with resilience and
imagination.

A Short Introduction to Promoting Resilience in Children. Colby Pearce, $27.95

A child's capacity to cope with adversity and 'stand on their own two feet' is seen as critical to their development, well-being, and future independence and success in adulthood. Psychological strength, or resilience, directly affects a child's capacity to cope with adversity.

This book provides a succinct, accessible and clear guide on how to promote resilience in children and achieve positive developmental outcomes for them. The author covers three key factors that affect resiliency: vulnerability to stress and anxiety, attachment relationships, and access to basic needs. For each, the author presents practical advice and strategies, such as how to regulate children's stress and anxiety, how to encourage and maintain secure attachments, and how to assure children that their needs are understood and will be met. The model presented will help parents and carers ensure their children grow up happy, healthy and resilient.

The Simple Guide to Sensitive Boys: How to Nurture
Children and Avoid Trauma. Betsy de Thierry, $21.95

Too often, adults think of sensitive boys as shy, anxious
and inhibited. They are measured against society's ideas about 'manliness'
— that all boys are sociable, resilient and have endless supplies of energy. This
highly readable guide is for any adult wanting to know how to understand and
celebrate sensitive boys. It describes how thinking about boys in such
old-fashioned ways can cause great harm, and make a difficult childhood all the
more painful. The book highlights the real strengths shared by many sensitive
boys
— of being compassionate, highly creative, thoughtful, fiercely
intelligent and witty. It also flips common negative clichés about sensitive
boys being shy, anxious and prone to bullying to ask instead: what we can do to
create a supportive environment in which they will flourish?

Full of simple yet sage advice, this book will help you
to encourage boys to embrace their individuality, find their own place in the
world, and to be the best they can be.

The Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for
Health and Lifelong Thriving. Lisa Miller, $22.99

In The Spiritual Child, psychologist Lisa
Miller presents the next big idea in psychology: the science and the power of
spirituality. Combining cutting-edge research with broad anecdotal evidence
from her work as a clinical psychologist to illustrate just how invaluable
spirituality is to a child's mental and physical health, Miller translates
these findings into practical advice for parents, giving them concrete ways to
develop and encourage their children's — as well as their own — well-being. In
this provocative, conversation-starting book, Dr. Miller presents us with a
pioneering new way to think about parenting our modern youth.

Stickley the frog has the gift of
"stick-to-it-ness." His sticky toes help him stick to windows,
ceilings, and surfboards — even under plates! But Stickley's toes aren't the
only way he sticks to things. His attitude helps him stick with projects — no
matter how frustrating or hard they may be — so he can reach his goals. Read
about Stickley and learn how he makes a plan, sticks to it, and gets things done!

Includes a Note to Parents, Caregivers, and Teachers with
more information about perseverance and strategies for boosting
stick-to-it-ness in kids.

The Tale of Two Fishes. Juliette Ttofa,
illustrated by Julia Gallego, $20.90

The Tale of Two Fishes is a therapeutic story
about developing resilient thinking. A little girl feeds blue fishes with
up-turned mouths and red fishes with down-turned mouths. The more she feeds the
red fish, the bigger and more angry they become. The girl realises that if she
feeds the blue fish and ignores the red, the blue fish will thrive. The story
teaches children about the importance of balanced thinking and not dwelling too
much on negative thoughts.

This beautifully illustrated storybook will appeal to all
children, and can be used by practitioners, educators and parents as a tool to
discuss the importance of resilient thinking and the control we have over our
own thoughts and behaviour.

In The Tapping Solution for Parents, Children &
Teenagers author Nick Ortner encourages readers to take a look at the
amount of stress and worry in their lives as parents, reminding readers that
self-care is critical. Parents are then introduced to the revolutionary
technique known as EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), or Tapping, as a means to
release parental overwhelm, quiet worry, manage conflict and transform their
experience of parenthood. The book also explores specific uses for Tapping with
children, ranging from releasing negative emotions like anger, fear and
phobias, to dealing with sadness, grief, guilt and shame. This powerful
technique can help with challenges such as anxiety disorders, difficulties with
sleep, nightmares, performance anxiety, bullying, school jitters, divorce and
much more.

This book will guide parents in using EFT Tapping to help
their children learn how to handle emotional challenges by means of
self-reflection, self-regulation and overall greater self-awareness. Through
the use of easy-to-follow diagrams, links to step-by-step videos and dozens of
Tapping tips, The Tapping Solution for Parents, Children & Teenagers offers an easy-to-use resource to help solve many of the emotional and social
challenges that families deal with on a daily basis.

Today’s kids don’t know how to read a map. They can
Google the answer to any question at lightning speed. If a teen forgets his
homework, a quick call to mom or dad has it hand-delivered in minutes. Fueled
by the rapid pace of technology, the Instant Gratification Generation not only
expects immediate solutions to problems — they’re more dependent than ever on
adults. Today’s kids are being denied opportunities to make mistakes, and more
importantly, to learn from them. They are being taught not to think.

In Teaching Kids to Think, Dr. Darlene Sweetland
and Dr. Ron Stolberg offer insight into the social, emotional, and neurological
challenges unique to this generation. They identify the five parent traps that
cause adults to unknowingly increase their children’s need for instant
gratification, and offer practical tips and easy-to-implement solutions to
address topics relevant to children of all ages.

A must-read for parents and educators, Teaching
Kids to Think will help you understand where this sense of entitlement
comes from — and how to turn it around in order to raise children who are
confident, independent, and thoughtful.

Tears Heal: How to
Listen to Our Children. Kate Orson, $26.99

One of the most difficult
things parents of babies and young children have to deal with are tears. When
babies cry, parents shhh, or rock them to try to get them to stop. When
toddlers' tantrum parents may distract them, attempt to reason with them, or
ignore their crying in the hope it won't last long. It seems natural to judge
the success of parenting by how much children cry.

Tears Heal will allow readers to discover parenting's biggest
paradigm shift, the way they respond to their children's tears. Parents will
learn how to transform their parenting by moving away from stopping feelings,
towards listening instead. Tears Heal explains how children's challenging
behavior comes from unheard feelings and how through simple shifts in how we
respond to their upsets we can solve our parenting struggles.

Tears Heal is warm, and full of empathy for the hard work, and
struggles that parents go through. It also has a strong leaning towards helping
parents with their own emotions, as they deal with their children's challenging
moments. It explains why we find children's feelings hard to handle, because
our feelings weren't fully listened to when we were children, and shows how we
can nurture and support ourselves so that we can be the parents we want to be.

13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don't Do: Raising
Self-Assured Children and Training Their Brains for a Life of Happiness,
Meaning, and Success. Amy Morin, $33.50

Do today’s children lack the flexibility and mental
strength they need to cope with life’s challenges in an increasingly
complicated and scary world? With safe spaces and trigger warnings designed to
"protect" kids, many adults worry that children don’t have the
resilience to reach their greatest potential. Amy Morin, the author who
identified the characteristics that mentally strong people share, now gives
adults — parents, teachers, and other mentors — the tools they need to become
mental strength trainers. While other books tell parents what to do, Amy teaches
parents what "not to do," which she says is equally important in
raising mentally strong youngsters.

As a foster parent, psychotherapist, and expert in family
and teen therapy, Amy has witnessed first-hand what works. When children have
the skills they need to deal with challenges in their everyday lives, they can
flourish socially, emotionally, behaviorally, and academically. With
appropriate support, encouragement, and guidance from adults, kids grow
stronger and become better. Drawing on her experiences and insight, 13
Things Mentally Strong Parents Don’t Do combines case studies, practical
tips, specific strategies, and concrete and proven exercises to help children
of all ages — from preschoolers to teenagers — build mental muscle and develop into
healthy, strong adults.

Too
Safe for Their Own Good: How Risk and Responsibility Help Teens
Thrive. Michael Ungar, $22.99

Internationally respected social worker
and family therapist Michael Ungar tells us why our mania to keep
our kids safe is causing us to do the opposite - put them in harm’s
way. By continuing to protect them from failure and disappointment,
many of our kids are missing out on the “risk-taker’s advantage,”
the benefits that come from experiencing manageable amounts of danger.
In Too Safe for Their Own Good, Ungar inspires parents
to recall their own childhoods and the lessons they learned from
being risk-takers and responsibility-seekers, much to the annoyance
of their own parents. He offers the support parents need in setting
appropriate limits and provides concrete suggestions for allowing
children the opportunity to experience the rites of passage that
will help them become competent, happy, thriving adults.

In our mania to provide emotional
life jackets around our kids, helmets and seatbelts, approved
playground equipment, after-school supervision, an endless stream
of evening programming, and no place to hang out but the tiled
flooring of our local mall, we parents are accidentally creating
a generation of youth who are not ready for life. Our children
are too safe for their own good.

From toughLOVE, a unique online community: balanced,
practical advice for parents of school-age children from child psychology
experts on how to handle everything from picky eating to media consumption to
the homework wars. Combining a high level of nurture with an emphasis on
boundaries and structure, toughLOVE shows parents how to help their kids become
capable, responsible, and productive from the first day of kindergarten through
the first day of college... and beyond.

A nationally recognized parenting expert
and spokesperson for fathers, Glennon presents straightforward and
well-researched-ways both to nurture young men and, in turn, to teach them how
to be nurturing.

200 Ways to Raise a Girl’s Self-Esteem. Will Glennon $24.95

200 WAYS TO RAISE A GIRL'S SELF-ESTEEM
provides straightforward advice and helpful guidelines for parents and teachers
who want to help girls build positive self-images and develop full, exuberant
lives.

Why is a lack of empathy — which goes hand-in-hand with the
self-absorption epidemic Dr. Michele Borba calls the Selfie Syndrome — so
dangerous? First, it hurts kids’ academic performance, and leads to bullying
behaviors. Also, it correlates with more cheating, and less resilience. And
once children grow up, a lack of empathy hampers their ability to collaborate,
innovate, and problem-solve — all must-have skills for the global economy. In UnSelfie, Dr. Borba pinpoints the forces causing the empathy crisis and shares a
revolutionary, researched-based, 9-step plan for reversing it.

The good news? Empathy is a trait that can be taught and
nurtured. Dr. Borba offers a framework for parenting that yields the results we
all want: successful, happy kids who also are kind, moral, courageous, and
resilient. UnSelfie is a blueprint for parents and educators who want to
kids shift their focus from I, me, and mine... to we, us, and ours.

Using Picture Books to Enhance Children's Social and
Emotional Literacy: Creative Activities and Programs for Parents and
Professionals. Susan Elswick, $33.95

Children can struggle to engage with and articulate
certain emotions, which can have a profound impact on their behaviour,
confidence and ability to form relationships, follow instructions and perform
tasks. This resource for teachers, therapists, counsellors and parents uses
children's literature and some of its well-known characters, such as the
Rainbow Fish and Stanley Yelnats IV from Holes, as a basis for practical
activities that enable children to express and manage these emotions.

Social-emotional literacy training assists students in
developing important life skills such as the ability to develop good
relationships and empathy skills, as well as being able to understand, manage
and communicate their own emotions. This book offers an introduction to social-emotional
literacy, followed by activities related to emotions such as empathy,
friendship, grief and self-esteem, aiming to embed this literacy training into
daily school and home activities to increase children's chances of future
success.

When facing challenges, unpleasant tasks, and contentious
issues such as homework, screen time, food choices, and bedtime, children often
act out or shut down, responding with reactivity instead of receptivity. This
is what New York Times bestselling authors Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
call a No Brain response. But our kids can be taught to approach life with
openness and curiosity. Parents can foster their children’s ability to say yes
to the world and welcome all that life has to offer, even during difficult
times. This is what it means to cultivate a Yes Brain.

When kids work from a Yes Brain, they’re more willing to
take chances and explore. They’re more curious and imaginative, less worried
about making mistakes. They’re better at relationships and more flexible and
resilient when it comes to handling adversity and big feelings. They work from
a clear internal compass that directs their decisions, as well as the way they
treat others. Guided by their Yes Brain, they become more open, creative, and
resilient. In The Yes Brain, the authors give parents skills, scripts,
ideas, and activities to bring kids of all ages into the overwhelmingly
beneficial “yes” state.

With inspirational anecdotes, fun and helpful
illustrations, and a handy Yes Brain Refrigerator Sheet to keep your family on
point, The Yes Brain is an essential tool for nurturing positive
potential and keeping your child’s inner spark glowing and growing strong — and
gifting your children with a life of rich relational connections, meaningful
interactions with the world, and emotional equanimity.

YOGA FOR CHILDREN will encourage
your child to learn about yoga with an attentive, at-home instructor — you!
Even if you are new to the practice, author, mom, and children's yoga expert
Lisa Flynn will guide you and your child through more than 200 yoga poses,
meditations, and activities that are suitable for children between the ages of
two and twelve. Complete with full-color photographs, instructional scripts,
and pose modifications, YOGA FOR CHILDREN will help build your
child's confidence, self-awareness, and focus while strengthening your
connection, one yoga session at a time.

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